A biography for Jackie Cooganhasn’t been written yet.
“Fester has a lot going for him. He's 120 volt AC and DC, and he's great with dynamite. His only trouble is that he's one of the great losers of our time. He would make a great spy, but he kinda stands out in a crowd.”
“My dad had a good sense about merchandising, and I appeared in all kinds of products from pencil boxes and soap to suits and caps.”
“All it took was one good role to convince producers all over again that I could act.”
“Peck and Peck paid us $100,000 per year to put out a Jackie Coogan line of clothes. Millions and millions of caps were sold.”
“You have to re-establish yourself in this business about every 10 years.”
“I've thrown my hair piece away.”
“I was blackballed by the studios when I sued by stepfather.”
“Most people think 'The Kid' was my first film. Not so.”
“Uncle Fester brought me back with the young group. He was very 'in' with the teens.”
“I had the flu in New York and pushed the President of the United States off the front pages.”
“If you're known as a dramatic actor it helps you a lot. Even though to me it's simpler, it leaves a deeper impression on the public.”
“The Coogan Law had to come and it just happens that I was the goat for it.”
“In 1938 the Coogan Law was passed in California.”
“Fester never talked in the 'Addams Family' cartoons. So I raised my voice an octave and I gave him a beetling look.”
“My uncle Les Dolliver was a partner with the Nasser brothers, who owned a string of theaters in San Francisco, and also supplied motion picture projectors and seats for theaters. So I was always around theater people.”
“In 1923 I was the No. 1 box office star. A year later it was Rin Tin Tin.”
“Send me a good script and I'll be there.”
“Kids haven't changed since my day except they are more hip.”
“There isn't any more real show business.”
“Unless I was to play an accepted character from a novel, I won't put on a toupee.”